If you can say: I go to New York for work. Why can't you say: I go to New York fo

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Re: If you can say: I go to New York for work. Why can't you say: I go to New Yor

They mean the same thing effectively. The only possible nuance of difference I could consider is that "on business" means that the entire trip is required by your work. Your company has sent you to another country for some meetings or to buy products etc. If you are there "for business", it's possible that business is only forming a small part of your trip. I don't expect everyone else here to agree with me.

Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.

Re: If you can say: I go to New York for work. Why can't you say: I go to New Yor

The only difference I was thinking was similar.
"On business" - your company sent you.
"For business" - perhaps you are an entrepreneur and you go there to meet with clients. Or perhaps your company sends you.

I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.